Example sentences of "she had [be] thinking " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 2 | She had been thinking a lot about the conversation she and Leila had had back at Lazar 's , the talk of sky cities and escape . |
| 3 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 4 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 5 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 6 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 7 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 8 | She stood quivering in his grasp , terrified he might somehow guess what she had been thinking . |
| 9 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 10 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 11 | She had been thinking of the three men downstairs , though perhaps one could hardly count John as being in the running . |
| 12 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 13 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 14 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 15 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |
| 16 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 17 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |
| 18 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |